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Friday, April 19, 2013

More Light is Fermenting

There's almost a foot of new snow this morning and the wind is persistent, as it pushes it into snowdrifts around my porch. A part of me wants to complain, but I also realize it might be exactly what I need, perhaps even asked for, in order to stay here inside a bit longer..."Spiced Manna"

Someone Will steal you if you don't Stay near

And sell you as a slave in the Market.

I singTo the nightingales' heartsHoping they will learnMy verse,

So that no will ever imprisonYour brilliant angelFeathers.

Have I put enough spiced mannaOn your plateTonight

In this tavernWhere HafizServes?

If not please wait,For more light is nowFermenting.

Someone will steal you if youDon't stay near,

And sell you as a slave inThe market,

So your Beloved and ISing.

~Hafiz
The photograph was taken yesterday evening at 6:00, as more snow continued to come down...

Oh my gosh!!! It looks like the middle of winter and we're 11 days away from May. Yes, this is very odd. I'm further south, but my heater is still on. Too chilly and wet to even start working in my yard...sheesh!

Hello Teresa! What a beautiful winter picture. you might almost forgive the weather! But enough snow now. We had a day with 18 celsius the next below zero. Confusion between winter and summer clothes!Leg warmers or not!! LOL! It's sunny today but icy cold.

This poem is like an old fairy tale where the mother tells a story to her children to scare them into staying close to home... but it's like a song... a beautiful, frightening song. I can almost hear the music.Hope Spring comes soon for you.

A beautiful photo Teresa. Your camera loves you. I expect to see some real spring weather very soon. Soon the mosquitos will be biting you. A head-to-toe mosquito net will be required for your au natural walks in the woods. Spring will be short so enjoy each and every day of it.

Steven! Why, whatever do you mean? lolYes, a short spring, then the skeeters... It's so good to "see" you ... Thanks for the sweet thoughts...

Be sure to check out my micropoetry blog on my sidebar: bayou summer. You might like the poem by my "guest poet," Cletis Stump and then come back tomorrow for another of mine I think you'll like... :))

But there's lovely moisture in that snow! Just hope for a gentle snowmelt. There's some concern north of you that a sudden temperature change and a too-fast melt will result in flooding - especially around Winnepeg and on the prairie.

Oh, I'm so prosaic about this weather stuff. I do love it, and it is beautiful, but I'm still drought conditioned to see every snowfall first in terms of inches of moisture!

We finally had a perfect spring weekend last week. That's why I'm so behind on all things bloggish and housekeeping-ish. I took two days to unplug and just go enjoy the weather and wildflowers and little places I'd never been. In central Texas there's a collection of German and Czech churches that are jewels - their interiors are stenciled and painted within an inch of their lives, and they've been that way since the mid-to-late 1800s. I'd never seen them. Now I had, and their flowers all around. One of these days you'll have flowers all around, too!

I'm hoping it will make a very lush summer. We're having very nice temps and weather this weekend ... got my apple trees pruned today. Your trip to those old churches sounds very interesting. Good photo opps. I am so looking forward to flowers! Thanks for your lovely comment.

There is a part of me that sorely misses Talihina, and this photo reminds me of that awesomeness of being next to nature and the power found in isolation. The being next to god thing as a dog sits with the snow.